Entered into: Best Scripted Format 2022
Produced by: Original: Skyline Entertainment, Eric Wirix and Jan Theys
Remake: Eagle Eye Drama
For: Original: Eén/VRT
Remake: PBS, ITV / Britbox
Distributed by: Beta Film
A brilliant but brash Professor of criminology with OCD helps the police solve unusual crimes.
The crime series about the brilliant but rather eccentric police psychologist Professor T. has taken the world by storm. With its Belgium original, produced by Skyline and running for three seasons on VRT, it was already remade in Germany by Cologne’s Rowboat Film- und Fernsehproduktion, which successfully ran on ZDF for four seasons. Professor T also investigated in France on TF1 (6 hours). The most recent remake is produced by Eagle Eye Drama for ITV and PBS. It stars Ben Miller (Bridgerton, Death in Paradise) as the titular Professor and Frances De La Tour (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The History Boys) and Emma Naomi (Bridgerton) in a high-end primetime crime series set against the glorious and prestigious backdrop of Cambridge University. Now, ITV has recommissioned a second six-part series of the smart crime drama. Airing on ITV during the summer of 2021, the launch episode of Professor T attracted an impressive 5.41m viewers on ITV (28 day consolidated), also performing strongly in the US where it was broadly carried by local PBS stations and is streaming on the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel, pbs.org and the PBS Video app. Professor T is available to viewers to catch up on ITV Hub and also available to BritBox UK subscribers who can stream the boxset series.
